As I reveled in the tears of conservatives responding to the Supreme Court’s ruling on same sex marriage, I came across one particular Republican Representative clown who epitomizes the laughable hypocrisy of the right-wing. David Vitter...

Bristol Palin just revealed that she’s pregnant with her second child out of wedlock, and as suspected, she’s being ridiculed for being a hypocrite on quite a few social issues. While she is on the record against gay marriage and...

A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine confided in me about his son dropping a gigantic bomb regarding his religious stance. My friend’s child came out as an atheist, which understandably makes parents who do believe in religion a little...

You undoubtedly have misty water-colored memories that reach way way back to the Year of Our Lord 2012 when Republicans declared War on Women because ladies were all needy all of the time with their freakish lady plumbing and crazy hormonal talk...

Central to the Supreme Court’s campaign finance decisions in the John Roberts era is that the government’s only legitimate interest in this area is preventing direct, quid pro quo corruption — a donor demanding that a specific law be passed,...

Roy Edroso of the Village Voice has a round-up of all the ugly and frequently dishonest right wing attacks on Obamacare after the Congressional Budget Office released a report showing that Americans would reduce their work hours by enough to...

It’s time for marriage promotion programs to die. The first problem is that they don’t actually convince people to get married; nor do they get fathers to spend more time with their children, make children more emotionally secure,...

Do you believe people don’t work because they’re lazy? Why not offer them a job and prove it? Jesse Myerson wrote a great piece in the Rolling Stone rolling out five bold ideas for reducing—permanently—the very serious...

Nelson Mandela: How US conservatives viewed him then – and now (via The Christian Science Monitor) Mourners celebrate the life of Nelson Mandela in the street outside his old house in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. Flags were lowered...

Liberals tend to underestimate their similarity to other liberals, according to a recent study, while conservatives overestimate their similarities — and those differences may account for the relative political success of the tea party in...

Much of the coverage of the government showdown has focused on a relatively small group of hardline conservatives within the Republican caucus who have backed their party’s leaders into a fight they didn’t want. As Ryan Lizza noted in The New...

It’s deeply unsurprising that conservatives decided to honor the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington by denying that racism still exists and instead arguing that racial disparities can therefore only be blamed on black...

Conservative journalists are part of a secretive group that hopes to defeat moderate to progressive politicians, according to Mother Jones’ Washington D.C. Bureau Chief David Corn. During an interview with 92Y Producer Jordan Chariton at...

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments about DOMA and Prop 8 today, and there’s a lot of anticipation now, especially since they could truly use this opportunity to not only strike down these laws but also to make same-sex marriage a right...

Political pundits often refer to election years as “the silly season,” to denote when politicians are working so hard to get the public’s divided attention that they’ll say almost anything to rate a media mention, even if...